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On Ubuntu 16.04, I accidentally deleted my /usr/lib/gcc dir. I tried to reinstall gcc but the dir won't be created again. How do I restore.

~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/gcc
gcc-5-base:amd64, libgcc-5-dev:amd64, cpp-5, gcc-5, gcc-6-base:amd64: /usr/lib/gcc
Anubhav
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I recommend you to reinstall all packages on your system that are known to have files in the deleted /usr/lib/gcc directory.

The output of dpkg -S /usr/lib/gcc told us which packages this are, in your case:

gcc-5-base:amd64, libgcc-5-dev:amd64, cpp-5, gcc-5, gcc-6-base:amd64

Now let's reinstall all of them:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gcc-5-base:amd64 libgcc-5-dev:amd64 cpp-5 gcc-5 gcc-6-base:amd64

You can alternatively automate this process and leave the parsing of the package list to sed.
That way you only have to run this single command:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -S /usr/lib/gcc | sed 's/,\|: .*//g')
Byte Commander
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